User blog comment:Leadp1pe/First post in the DMC wikia!/@comment-186.215.223.130-20120125001352/@comment-775152-20120125050625

DmC: Devil May Cry is a new series that is not at all related to the DMC1-4 games. We don't know yet if there will be a DMC5, or if Capcom will end the series at DMC4.

I know there has been some confusion about this game, particularly since Ninja Theory has said on different occasions that this "is an origin story" (presumably happening before DMC3) and that this is a totally new game with a new Dante and a new world. The fan base (at least on this wiki) has come to the conclusion that Ninja Theory has changed enough about Dante's history that the DmC Dante cannot be the same Dante from DMC1-4, and that Ninja Theory was mistaken when they said DmC was another origin story.